Oftentimes users will ask in the forums about how to show BuddyPress sitewide activity in the sidebar of the site. This is handy for showing activity as it’s happening without the user having to return to the activity tab. Brajesh Singh created a BuddyPress Sitewide Activity Widget for this purpose and has recently updated it [...]
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Many users have been looking for a way for the site admin to send a private message to all members of a BuddyPress site. A few weeks ago we posted an article called How to Send a Site-wide Notice or a Site-wide Private Message in BuddyPress, highlighting the differences between notices and messages. The BuddyPress [...]
New in the WordPress repository today is the BuddyPress Pagetrace plugin, which outputs the current_component and the current_action as extracted from the $bp Global. This information helps BuddyPress developers to write conditionals to display different content for each component. It can be turned on or off in the WordPress dashboard under the BuddyPress menu under [...]
Many users have been waiting for BuddyPress moderation capabilities to be available in plugin form for managing their communities. It’s finally here in a pre-stable release that you can start testing now. Francesco Laffi posted the download today and welcomes your feedback. We’ll be doing a full review of the plugin in the near future [...]
Big news in the BuddyPress world is that bbPress will no longer be packaged with the BuddyPress download in the future. Since bbPress is currently being developed into a plugin for WordPress, BuddyPress plans to keep itself lean by removing forums from future downloads and allowing users to utilize the bbPress plugin. John James Jacoby [...]
Exciting BuddyPress news yesterday is that the eagerly awaited Classifieds component has been released. Current requirements for the plugin are BuddyPress 1.2 and WPMU. The component will be available for use with WordPress single user when WP 3.0 is released with custom post type functions. The classifieds are stored as blog posts. Of course I [...]
